Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
SUSAN SONTAGIn the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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My library is an archive of longings.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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